Dr JS Moroka Local Municipality
Dr JS Moroka Local Municipality is located in the Nkangala District Municipality of Mpumalanga province, South Africa. The seat of Dr JS Moroka Local Municipality is Siyabuswa.
Main places
The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places:[4]
Politics
The municipal council consists of sixty-two members elected by mixed-member proportional representation. Thirty-one are elected by first-past-the-post voting in thirty-one wards, while the remaining thirty-one are chosen from party lists so that the total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 18 May 2011 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of fifty-two seats on the council.
The following table shows the results of the 2011 election.[5][6]
Party | Votes | Seats |
Ward | List | Total | % | Ward | List | Total |
|
African National Congress |
47,725 | 50,159 | 97,884 | 80.3 | 31 | 21 | 52 |
|
Democratic Alliance |
4,247 | 4,307 | 8,554 | 7.0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
|
Independent |
4,335 | – | 4,335 | 3.6 | 0 | – | 0 |
|
National Freedom Party |
1,211 | 1,076 | 2,287 | 1.9 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
|
Ikusasa Lesizwe Independent Movement |
443 | 1,319 | 1,762 | 1.4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
|
Pan Africanist Congress |
889 | 762 | 1,651 | 1.3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
|
Congress of the People |
639 | 909 | 1,548 | 1.3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
|
Sindawonye Progressive Party |
583 | 810 | 1,393 | 1.1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
|
African People's Convention |
428 | 869 | 1,297 | 1.1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
|
African Christian Democratic Party |
423 | 403 | 826 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
|
Movement Democratic Party |
245 | 116 | 361 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total |
61,168 | 60,730 | 121,898 | 100.0 | 31 | 31 | 62 |
Spoilt votes |
1,195 | 1,911 | 3,106 |
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